US politics
Musk’s latest DOGE savings goal seems to be short a few zeros
Elon Musk initially promised to cut $US2 trillion from the federal budget. He now appears to have set the goal lower for a second time.
- David A. Fahrenthold and Maggie Haberman
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Trump’s tariffs on China are actually 145 per cent, White House clarifies
Meanwhile, the president said countries initially hit with a 10 per cent tariff – such as Australia – could negotiate a lower rate depending on what they offered the US.
- Michael Koziol
Musk to review US submarines as Australia warned tariffs could push up cost
Donald Trump has ordered Elon Musk to improve the capacity of US shipbuilding amid growing concern that his tariffs will increase the cost of the AUKUS pact.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Opinion
Too many narcissists in the nest: Why Trump’s bromances were always bound to clash
Elon Musk’s public fallout with Trump’s trade advisor came as no surprise to psychologists like me. It’s increasingly clear that we might be dealing with significant personality pathologies in this administration.
- Ahona Guha
- Opinion
- Australia votes
The problem with going after ‘woke’ diversity? It’s actually good for us
The kindest thing that can be said about dismantling diversity programs is that it’s retrograde. And by retrograde, I’m not just referring to a Happy Days self-image of society.
- Sonia Orchard
‘Dumber than a sack of bricks’: Musk unloads on Trump’s top trade adviser
Divisions over tariffs have boiled over in Donald Trump’s inner circle with billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk launching a vicious attack on the president’s “dangerously dumb” top trade adviser Peter Navarro.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Why did so many people delude themselves about Trump?
Wall Street mistook skill for intelligence. Now we are all suffering.
- Michelle Goldberg
Chalmers calls emergency economy meeting to deal with Trump tariff dump
The treasurer has called in RBA governor Michele Bullock, treasury secretary Steven Kennedy and other key financial regulars to respond to the global financial chaos.
- Matthew Knott, Shane Wright and David Crowe
Court clears way for Trump to use 18th century law for deportations
But in a bitterly divided decision that overturned a lower court’s block on sending migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, the Supreme Court imposed some limits.
- Mark Sherman
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Why back down? China’s Xi will only get one Trump in his lifetime
Donald Trump has threatened China with another 50-percentage point increase in tariffs unless it removes its own tariffs on US exports. That’s not going to happen.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
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